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Dummy may refer to:
Dolls
- Crash test dummy
- Mannequin, a model of the human body
- Puppet used as a ventriloquism prop
People
- Dummy (nickname), a list of people
- Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788-1863), the pseudonym of a man accused of being a witch in 19th century Essex, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Dummy (comics), a fictional character from the comic book X-Men
- Dummy (DC Comics), a fictional character from DC Comics
Films
- Dummy (1979 film), a 1979 TV movie starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino
- Dummy (film), a 2002 drama film/comedy film
- Dummy (2009 film), a coming-of-age drama starring Emma Catherwood
- Dummy, a short film by Kira Muratova
Television
- "Dummy" (Pushing Daisies episode)
- "The Dummy", an episode of The Twilight Zone
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Dummy (album), the 1994 debut album of Portishead
- Dummy, the contract bridge partner of the player who wins the auction or that player's hand
Linguistics
- Dummy, a type of syntactic expletive, which form is required grammatically but which contributes nothing to meaning, including:
- Dummy auxiliary, such as do in some English sentences; see do-support
- Dummy pronoun, such as it in the sentence it is good to relax
Mathematics and computing
- Dummy or filler text, randomly generated text
- Dummy data, data used as a placeholder or for testing purposes only
- Dummy file, files used to fit the space in data optical discs
- Dummy variable (statistics), also known as indicator variable, only taking the values 0 and 1 and used in regression analysis
- Dummy variable, in math, a free and bound variable
- Skeleton (computer science) or dummy code, not used in the final product, but left in to avoid creating bugs
Military
- Dummy round, a round of ammunition that is completely inert
- Military dummy, fake military equipment used for deception
Sports
- Dummy (football), an association football (soccer), rugby league, and rugby union ruse
- Dummy pass, in rugby league football
Stand-in or false entity
- Dummy candidate, someone who stands for election with no intention of winning
- Dummy corporation, an entity created as a front or cover
- Dummy purchaser, a type of agent
Other uses
- Dummy load, a device used to simulate an electrical load, usually for testing purposes
- Pacifier, called a dummy or soother in some countries
- Steam dummy, a steam engine made to resemble a railroad passenger coach
See also
- All pages with a title containing Dummy
- Dum (disambiguation)
- Dumb (disambiguation)
- Dummy Lake (disambiguation)
- For Dummies, instructional/reference book series
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